Stéphane Dujarric answered the question of a journalist on the meeting held the day before between the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald Trump and several European leaders in the White House.

He followed the talks last week between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska.

Commitment and dialogue

“It is very important that all those involved continue to remain actively engaged in what we want to see as an inclusive dialogue to support the important momentum that has been created to provide an immediate cease-fire and lasting peace in Ukraine,” he said.

Almost four years have passed since Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine and more than 13,000 civilians were killed, UN Human Rights Monitors In the country, reported.

Mr. Dujarric was asked if the secretary general had comment on the possibility of a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents.

While noting that there are a lot of discussions on “dialogues or potential formats, the location”, it said: “It is obviously important that the parties which are directly involved in this conflict are able to speak directly”.

Asked what role the UN could play in this process, he declared that the World Organization will be “favorable and ready to participate in a role which could or may not be given to us according to the principles that the Secretary General has often reiterated”.

When he has been in a hurry if the United Nations Peace Soldiers could be deployed in Ukraine, Mr. Dujarric stressed that “any peacekeeping mission should go through the Security advice. »»

In the past 24 hours in Gaza, there have been more victims reports in the shots along the aid convoy routes, where desperate crowds of civilians are often waiting to take supplies at the back of the trucks.

Meanwhile, hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups are also increasing. During the last 24 hours, air strikes and bombing occurred in five districts of Gaza City, with advanced tanks and troops.

UN officials and partners in Gaza warned on Monday that the Israeli offensive would cause additional mass movement and “would have a horrible impact on people already exhausted, malnourished, bereaved, moved and deprived of the bases necessary for survival.”

In addition, the famine persists in the enclave because the supplies remain insufficient and inaccessible.

Restrictions on international NGOs

Ochha also indicated that new requirements for international non -governmental organizations (NGOs) prevent many humanitarian partners from bringing supplies to Gaza.

To guarantee registration and provide equipment, international NGOs must share sensitive personal information on Palestinian employees, often contrary to the national legislation of their country, which affects their ability to protect civilians.

Upcoming humanitarian work

The UN and its NGO partners have pointed out that their teams will remain in Gaza City to provide vital support, recalling the parties of their obligation to protect civilians, including humanitarian workers, and safeguards humanitarian infrastructure.

“Every day and every night, the humanitarian workers of Gaza are courageously endanger to keep others alive. At the same time, they also find it difficult to feed and feed their own family “,” said Spokesperson for the secretary general, Stéphane Dujarric, reporting on the situation in the context of World Humanitarian Day During Tuesday’s daily press briefing in New York.

“The world cannot look away during attacks on humanitarian workers and on the very people they are trying to help become a routine. »»

The humanitarian community welcomes the Israeli announcement that the tents and shelter equipment will be authorized in Gaza, aimed at using this ban on the ban to provide tents, shelters and other articles in the Gaza Strip. However, the UN and the partners said it was deeply disturbing that this lifting was in relation to an imminent offensive.

They called for a significant increase in private sector operations and a complete facilitation of deliveries of local and international humanitarian organizations, with supplies authorized to enter through all level passages.

The first eight months of 2025 show no sign of reversal of this disturbing trend, with 265 humanitarian workers killed on August 14, according to figures published on World Humanitarian Day.

Attacks on humanitarian workers, assets and operations violate international law and undergo the living lines that support millions of people trapped in war and disaster areas.

“Even an attack on a humanitarian colleague is an attack on us all and against the people we serve,” said Tom Fletcher, Head of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha), speaking in Geneva.

At New York headquarters, the United Nations organized a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the bombing of the United Nations SEIR SES office in Baghdad in 2003, which cost the lives of 22 people. Some of the survivors attended the event.

Protect humanitarian workers

“The humanitarian workers bear hope where there is despair,” said Fletcher during the commemoration ceremony of the humanitarian day for 2025 in Geneva.

“They bring humanity where there is inhumanity.”

However, humanitarian workers are attacked.

In 2024, most of the humanitarian workers killed were national staff serving their communities and were attacked in the exercise of their duties or at home.

Since October 2023, 520 humanitarian workers, mainly staff from the UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWAwere killed in Gaza – the deadliest place for humanitarian workers for the second consecutive year.

OCHA has demanded that Member States protect civilians and humanitarian workers and hold responsible authors.

Despite the dangers, “humanitarian workers will not withdraw,” said Fletcher.

Humanitarian workers in the Middle East

Through the Middle East, civilians, including humanitarian workers, “are killed, injured and attacked in shocking numbers,” said the United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinators in the Palestinian Territory (OPT), Syria, Yemen and Lebanon in a joint declaration This Tuesday.

Since August 2024, at least 446 humanitarian workers have been killed, injured, kidnapped or detained in these places. “The world fails humanitarian workers and the people they serve,” the statement said.

Renewing their appeal to respect for international humanitarian laws and human rights, the officials have called on the international community to “protect those who protect humanity”.

The CRSV crisis is deepened, reflecting the widening of the scope of war in the world. There were more than 4,600 cases of sexual violence linked to conflicts in 2024Marking an increase of 25% compared to 2023. And these data, Ms. Patten, underline, is a chronic sub-competition, only reflecting the cases verified by the UN.

In the midst of a general increase in the CRSV, sexual violence against children increased by 35% disturbing in the past year, with victims as young as a year.

The report extends over 21 situations of concern, with the greatest number of cases recorded in the Central African Republic, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan.

In addition, parties in a credible manner of having committed or authorized the CRSV, there are new announcements in the DRC, Libya and the Palestinian territory occupied.

This crisis has a disproportionate impact on women and girls, who constantly represent more than 90% of the verified cases, such as 92% this year.

Report trends

Apart from the figures, Ms. Patten explained many trends concerning the report.

Firstly, the women and girls displaced and refugees are exposed to increased risks of sexual violence, which inhibits their yield safely.

Food insecurity also increases the risk of sexual violence because belligerent parties restrict humanitarian access

In addition, armed groups use sexual violence to consolidate the control of territorial and natural resources and to encourage the recruitment of combatants.

In particular, the CRSV also persists in formal and informal detention establishments worldwide.

Finally, as funding reductions cause the United Nations peace activities, the capacity of the United Nations system to reach and support CRSV survivors has decreased considerably.

Forced to do more with less

While global military spending in just 24 hours exceeds what is allocated in one year to approach the CRSV and the needs continue to increase, Ms. Patten stressed that “the women’s first-line organizations go from sub-financed to not funded”.

Apart from the United Nations peacekeeping missions, which has reduced their capacities, funding reductions caused shelters for survivors, medical supplies for rape victims to be exhausted and clinics close in the world.

In major hot conflicts such as Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Gaza, where health systems have been decimated, “Humanitarian organizations forced to do more and more with less and less. “”

“If we are serious about peace, we must finance the institutions that make peace possible. If we are serious about security, we must reaffirm the rule of law and hold responsible for those who commit, order or tolerate serious violations, including the crime of atrocity of sexual violence linked to conflicts, “she urged.

Action plan

Ms. Patten said that her mandate was pursuing three lines of response: promoting compliance, improving the provision of services and strengthening guarantees against impunity.

In improving delivery, she pointed out that the inter-ages network entitled Action not against sexual violence in conflictsThat she chairs, was “really transforming” in her response by advocacy, strengthening knowledge and joint operations on the ground and has reached thousands of survivors in 18 conflict zones.

As the demand for services prevails over the supply of resources, “any inability to maintain investment, any turning back on established standards or any detangling of existing architecture, not only would betray the survivors, but would embrace the authors more,” concluded Ms. Patten.

“The risk of famine is everywhere in Gaza,” said journalists in Geneva, spokesperson for the United Nations Human Rights Office, Thameen al-Kheetan.

“This is a direct result of the Israeli government’s policy to block humanitarian aid,” he said.

Mr. Al-Kheetan insisted that in recent weeks, the Israeli authorities have only made it possible to participate in quantities which remain “well below what would be necessary to avoid generalized famine”.

The UN said on Monday that hunger deaths continue to be reported in the band, including children.

More displaced people

While the Israeli army intensified its attacks in the north of the enclave, it continued to issue travel orders for the Palestinians, said Al-Kheetan.

He noted that the Gazans were invited to move to the Al-Mawasi region, despite continuous air strikes and disastrous conditions there.

“Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians moved to Al-Mawasi have little or no access to essential services and supplies, including food, water, electricity and tents,” he warned.

Deadly continuation of aid

THE Ohchr The spokesman stressed that the damage to humanitarian aid “may be a deadly prosecution” with the latest data indicating that 1,857 Palestinians were killed while they were looking for food from May 27, when the United States and the militarized aid distribution program supported by the United States and Israel known as Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have commented on its operations.

From this number, he said that 1,021 had been killed near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and 836 sites on the routes of supply trucks.

“Most of these murders seem to have been committed by the Israeli army,” said Al-Kheetan.

Ask how the situation could get worse, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Office (Ochha), said that “this has already worsened”, emphasizing the devastating effects of the Israeli ban on the entrance to shelter equipment in the enclave.

While the Israeli authorities recently announced that they would relieve the ban on shelter supplies, Laerke said that “the United Nations and our partners could not bring shelter equipment after the Israeli announcement”.

“There are a set of obstacles that must still be treated, including the authorization of Israeli customs,” he added.

Need refuge

The UN said on Monday that, according to partners’ estimates, at least 1.35 million people in Gaza needed an emergency shelter.

Aid agencies have warned that the tents used in Gaza are exhausted by prolonged exposure to the sun and frequent displacement.

Asked about the reasons given for the prohibition of shelter articles, Mr. Laerke explained that in a conflict, certain shelter articles such as tents of tents can be “duplicate diet” because they could be used for civil and military purposes.

“The shelter is forbidden to enter for about five months and during this period, more than 700,000 people have been moved or restarted,” he said.

People forced to flee repeatedly must often leave the tents which have been provided to them, explained Mr. Laerke, which creates a challenge for humanitarian workers “trying to respond to people where they are”.

The imminent expansion of Israeli military activities in Gaza City is another major concern for UN humanitarian workers, as it would grow thousands of people again in a seriously overcrowded area in the south of the strip.

Asked about the impact of Israel’s plans to occupy the city of Gaza, Mr. Al-Kheetan underlined a “enormous risk” for civilians.

“There are risks of mass movement … More murders and more misery that we have already seen in the Gaza Strip,” he warned. “Among those who will be affected are the most vulnerable, people with disabilities, injured, children, women,” he concluded.

Response to the prison video

In other developments, the human rights spokesman said This video sequence showing the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir reprimands and mocking the Palestinian chief Marwan Barghouthi inside an Israeli prison was “unacceptable”.

He said that the Minister’s behavior and the publication of images are an attack on the dignity of Mr. Barghouthi.

He added that international law requires that all prisoners be treated with humanity, with dignity and that their human rights be respected and protected.

“Such a conduct of the Minister responsible for Israeli penitentiary services can encourage violence against Palestinian prisoners, allowing human rights violations in Israeli detention establishments,” he said